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...Grimm & Co.: "Companies don't want to take the risk of establishing new ventures. They want to acquire those with an already profitable track record...
...Loon Lake by E.L. Doctorow. The author of Ragtime plays intricate and haunting blues variations on the American dream during the Great Depression. Italian Folktales, selected and retold by Italo Calvino. One of Italy's best novelists takes time out from his own fiction to become the Brothers Grimm of his own country. The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty. The wry and delicate humor of this distinguished Southern short-story writer is fully concentrated in this gathering of her works...
Once upon a time there was a writer named Italo Calvino. Although he liked making up stories, he also wanted to read older ones in his own language. "Was there an Italian equivalent of the Brothers Grimm?" he wondered one day. No answer came. So he set out on a quest. He spent two years studying obscure texts and dusty monographs, rescuing long-forgotten tales from all the regions of his native land. Finally, he ended his labors and brought forth a magic book...
Until now, the best-known of these consciences ripened in central and northern Europe, thanks largely to the pioneering work of the Grimms (in Germany) and Alexander Afanasyev (in Russia). Calvino's collection throws open a sunny window to the south. A tale told in the Black Forest differed, apparently, from the one that was related on the shores of the Mediterranean. The three little pigs did not make it to Italy; they became three grownup girls named Catherine, Julia and Marietta. Italian bards had little interest in the violence and gore that sometimes make for such grimm reading...
...People talked about the war, a silly war they said, and then they wrote some more. They dug up the records of the past, searching for new meanings where the scholars said there were none to be found. Paul Sills stumbled upon them though, buried in childhood copies of Grimm's Fairy Tales and cloth-bound editions of Aesop's Fables, and he brought them to life in a new kind of show that he called Story Theatre...